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Not-so-random stuff by and about me.
PEOPLE.COM We Shall Overcome I wrote a very personal essay for People 's Voices From the Fight Against Racism series. I riff on my family, the 70s, the South Bronx, South Carolina, Kojak, seeing the pope, AOC's power and strength, Nixon, Bella Abzug, the ghosts on The Hunger Games set, singing at the 2008 DNC, the MLK Memorial, meeting President Jimmy Carter and Rep. John Lewis and more.
MEDIUM Why All the Bernie Mitten Memes? I channeled my obsession with the Bernie Sanders mittens meme into a slew of social media posts featuring the Vermont senator in all nine landscapes featured in Sacred Landscapes of the Soul—and this story, my very first for Medium. Most agree he looks most at home in the tundra. So why am I (and the world) so obsessed? I conclude: After Trump, it feels good to laugh again.
mindbodygreen Have You Been Called An Old Soul? Here's What It Really Means I talked to mbg for a story listing the 11 characteristics of an old soul. Sign #8: You're not materialistic. Old souls, I share, have a sense that "we're living in this material world but there's something more important, and perhaps the things we've been taught in school, or by our parents, or society, aren't necessarily true." Read my thoughts about the other ten signs.
WRITE VOLUMES I discuss my deep love for Black avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy's remarkable scrapbook memoir, People Who Led to My Plays , in my writers' group's One Question Video Series. People charts her life from growing up in Cleveland in the 1930s and 40s through marriage and motherhood and her move to New York City in the 50s. I was fortunate enough to interview Kennedy for Elle in the early 90s.
KAMALA'S WAY: AN AMERICAN LIFE I am thrilled to have agented this phenomenal biography of Vice President Kamala Harris by veteran California political writer Dan Morain, published by Simon & Schuster a week before the inauguration on January 12, 2021.Town & Country included Kamala's Way on its list of the 2 8 must-read books of winter 2021. I really love this graphic featuring additional choice picks by Chang Rae Lee and Gabriel Byrne, whom I regret not having fan-girled when I saw him outside the New York hotel we both happened to be staying at a few years ago. Speaking of New York, the Daily News gave Kamala's Way a shout-out, and The New York Times wrote that Dan's "insider's view provides a revealing portrait of the people and events surrounding Harris's rise to political stardom." Kamala's Way is a Los Angeles Times bestseller. It's no wonder. After a first read of Dan's draft, my eyes welled up with tears. Her story is so very inspiring and moving!
THE JENNY MCCARTHY SHOW "Good book alert! Good book alert!" So says Jenny McCarthy. And who am I to argue? I can't thank her enough for her unbridled enthusiasm for Sacred Landscapes of the Soul and for having me on her Sirius XM radio show. "This is totally up my alley," she enthused before the interview. "Let's go sell some books!"
HIGH ROAD TO HUMANITY In my very last podcast of 2020, host Nancy Yearout (get it?) and I rhapsodize about synchronicity and my spiritual journey, which took me from a small Baptist church in the Bronx to the Agape International Spiritual Center in the City of Angels. Delighted to have ended the year on this high note.
THE STEVE JORDAN EXPERIENCE Personal trainer Steve Jordan believes in getting fit from the inside out. In our synchronistic heart-to-heart, soul-to-soul, we discuss life in La La Land and why I believe California is a spiritual mecca. In my opinion, despite the bad rap it gets, Los Angeles is a literal "city of angels."
FIRE IT UP WITH CJ God, Angels & Prayer CJ Liu and I share how we authentically express (no spiritual bypassing!) and align back to center during crazy times. I also reveal how I communicate directly with God. In other words, wherever you are, you, too, can align with the Divine—the subtitle of my book, SACRED LANDSCAPES of the SOUL.
THE HOLY SPIRIT'S CURRICULUM OF JOY It quickly became clear when I spoke with Austria-based Wanako Oberhuber that although we speak somewhat different languages when it come to our respective spiritual practices (Wanako teaches A Course in Miracles), we're pretty much saying the same thing: There is only the One. We are one. I loved this conversation!
THE AWARE SHOW Finding Calm in the Midst of the Chaos This year has proven to be unpredictable and chaotic for so many reasons. How can we navigate the rocky storms and find out grounding? I was delighted to share my "calming wisdom and tips for staying grounded" with Lisa Garr, whom I've listened to since forever on KPFK radio.
WCBS NEWSRADIO 880 What a thrill for this native New Yorker! And this station was my father's favorite. We discuss Sacred Landscapes; my favorite book blurb; thriving in the throes of a global pandemic—and I demonstrate how to blow off a little steam, too. My interview was broadcast in segments the week of August 10, 2020, but you can listen to it in its entirety here.
CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE, CHANGE YOUR LIFE Conversations with Joan My talk with Joan Herrmann first aired on October 4, 2020 at 10 p.m. ET on New York's AM 970 The Answer and iHeartRadio. Among the topics covered: How being a journalist prepared me for my life as a spiritual guide. How I define God. Click the link to hear our conversation on Spotify, Apple Music, Stitcher and Google Play.
WOMEN 4 WOMEN SUMMIT Reset, Restart, and Get Ready for 2021 was honored to be appear on the line-up for this Dec 1 gathering of inspired women hosted by Allison Carmen and Joan Herrmann (I first encountered Hermann when I did her radio show). My favorite tips I shared in order to Reset, Restart, and Get Ready for 2021? Focus on being vs. doing, and be sure to live in the present moment.
ELLE Spread the Word In recent interviews I've noted how interviewing someone is akin to holding space in a spiritual session. Which leads me to reflect on a few of my celebrity profiles. For the release of Poetic Justice, I interviewed John Singleton for a second time (the first time was for Elle's "Homeboy Heroes Bust Out on the Big Screen," a round-up of movies set in the 'hood.) His death in 2019 was a shock. I chatted with Janet Jackson, for the story, too: "I expected [her] to be quite withdrawn, but she was actually very open and sweet," I recounted for the contributors' page. And when Jackson's co-star Tupac Shakur was tragically killed, I flew to Vegas to cover the story for People.
INTERVIEW Jada Pinkett The Sass of '94 I was new to Los Angeles when I met Jada Pinkett in her trailer on the set of the horror film Demon Knight. At the time, she had three movies in the offing and was three years away from marrying Will Smith. I recently watched The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reunion show, which reminds me—I also profiled the actress who played the spoiled sister on Fresh Prince, Karyn Parsons. So what's the very first thing Jada and I talked about in her trailer? Her fabulous new look—she had recently dyed her hair blonde and was loving it. Who knew that years later we'd both have children in the business, and that her son would escort my daughter to prom?
ELLE Mitch Longley Acts Up I've rarely maintained contact with story subjects—except in very special instances. Case in point: Mitch, an actor, model and disability advocate (he was confined to a wheelchair after a car accident as a teen), would attend my art exhibits after we both moved to Los Angeles from New York. We occasionally got together for lunch. Our first outing (in New York) was to attend a National Easter Seal Society ceremony after my Elle story won an award "for media efforts promoting equality, dignity and independence of people with disabilities." Such a beautiful soul and, as you can see from this Ralph Lauren ad, he has a face to match.
ELLE She's Ain't Clumsy, She's A Lefty No, I never interviewed Jimi Hendrix, but I did meet with a man who claimed to be his son. Hendrix was a lefty, like me. See? I wrote a playful essay about the perils of being a southpaw, one of three underrepresented groups I represent.
ELLE Skin Flicks Yes, I have a thing for Harry Belafonte so I couldn't miss the opportunity to post yet another photo of him on my website. Here he is with Joan Fontaine in a still from Island in the Sun, one of the movies featured in my article about onscreen interracial romances.
SPIRIT MATTERS TALK I share with podcast co-hosts Phil Goldberg and Dennis Raimondi that time I had a wholly holy out-of-body experience on an acupuncturist's table—and how I've never enjoyed rollercoasters. But in these times of tremendous chaos and change, throwing our hands up in the air as if we are aboard a stomach-churning ride may very well be the best position to assume. In other words, surrender.
MYSTICAL MATCHMAKER Listen in as Marla Martenson, a fellow inhabitant of the City of Angels, and I discuss how to find calm in the chaos (breathing is key); whether we living out the End of Days or the Great Awakening; and how important it is to create—I'm painting again and writing lots! Marla recites a beautiful affirmation of self-love at the top. I intuitively placed my hand over my heart as I took in her deeply felt words.
PATHEOS Is God "Closer Than Your Own Breath"? Writes Tom Rapsas in his "Wake Up Call" column, "What I found most compelling in Sacred Landscapes of the Soul were the first-person essays that appear in italics every few pages in the book. They have been channeled or as Brailsford explains: The words flowed through me as if they were being communicated directly by God, speaking directly to me. And thereby, to you."
INNER VISIONS Life and Liberty Read my message about these times, published in Agape International Spiritual Center's inspirational guide. It opens with epigraphs from two of the greatest Americans to have ever lived. A preview: Freedom is a glorious thing, for we can think. It's within our thinking, after all, where we really get to expand and soar. We catch ahold of and then latch onto a vision. One caveat—do not cling. Our grasp must be loose so as to allow other possibilities to flow.
SIDEWALK TALK Spiritual Sustenance Thrilled to see these words from "Shadow and Light," one of the 111 pieces in Sacred Landscapes, in this promo for my conversation with Traci Ruble, founder of the phenomenal nonprofit Sidewalk Talk, which has been "listening on sidewalks to end loneliness and hear the unheard" since 2015. The passage appears in the Forest landscape and is meant to offer inspiration "when we are in the thick of it."
FOX NEWS 11 LA Agape Choir at the DNC In 2008 I headed with Agape's choir to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO, to sing with John Legend. Watch to hear how excited I was to board the Love Train. And here's the video of the pinch-me Rocky Mountain High experience. I blog about it all here.
BRIDGES & BLESSINGS The deeply authentic soul known as Rev. Julie and I talk frankly about helpful spiritual practices (breathing and dancing!), my former life as a momager and all kinds of good stuff. Thanks to my cousin, brother, dear Atlanta friend and the ex-beau who popped in. At the end I read "The Fire This Time," a selection from Sacred Landscapes.
INSTAGRAM STORIES I love this Instagram story my cousin Grace posted. Sacred Landscapes As Beach Read! And she's not the only one to report that she's toted my book to the sand. Maybe I should write about this hot new landscape in a sequel!
NU DVANCE MEDIA Karens would like to speak to the media about this whole "Karen" thing As I told the writer of this article, Amy Kuperinsky, "Some of my best friends are white Karens and they hardly fit the stereotype." Take Karen Springen, whom I first met at Newsweek, and is one of the kindest beings on the planet. Back in the day, as evidenced by this photo, we didn't only twin with our names.
WRITE VOLUMES I discuss life, death, grief, mothers, secrets, inspiration, Harriet Tubman, writing and more with Genea Tafesse, editor of the Shades anthologies, in the first author video interview conducted by the Write Volumes group. The second edition of the digital anthology, Shades of Transition and Transformation, is dedicated to our mothers, Leah and Leola, who we love and miss dearly.
FRIENDSOME AND THENSOME I hung out with the bubbly trio of podcast buddies Mindy Stearns, JD Cargill and Michelle Orrego to discuss Sacred Landscapes of the Soul and what else... my name. I first met Michelle covering fashion events in Los Angeles (she was a producer for KTLA at the time). They claim I'm "the coolest Karen out there!" Who am I to disagree?
PEOPLE Pain and Glory Things got tense when I arrived at Gladys Knight's Vegas home for a story pegged to her memoir and she announced there was to be no mention of ex-husband Les Brown in the article. (He'd ridden her coattails long enough, she said.) A flurry of calls to my editors ensued, and after that initial hiccup, we had a good heart-to-heart.
TEEN VOGUE 21 Mother's Day Tributes from Your Favorite Celebrities The shortest, most flattering article about me: "They got it from their mamas. Amandla's caption of their gorgeous mom says it all: 'my mom the legend.' " They'll get no argument from me. Posting here now because I just came across this story online. Plus I love this coat.
INSIDE TV What Simon Says Is Usually Right While West Coast editor of this short-lived magazine (it lasted only six months) produced by TV Guide and focused on television stars, I wrote a column defending American Idol's testy judge, Simon Cowell and shared my guilty pleasure: Gastineau Girls. Today I don't even remember who that show was about!
PEOPLE Who Loved Ya, Baby? I did! Life came full circle when I traveled to Forest Lawn Cemetery for Telly Savalas' funeral, earning my very first byline on this second cover story for People. Actual first story? Interviewing celebrities such as Rita Rudner about their experiences in the Northridge earthquake. I first met the Kojak star when I was in elementary school. He happened to be shooting an episode in Carl Schurz Park near my school. A few friends and I snuck out a back door to watch him. He approached us and graciously signed autographs. But he demanded payment from me for mine: he tapped his cheek whereupon I kissed him. (Note: it was all quite innocent.) When I shared the story with his wife, she was quite touched.
ESSENCE The Superhero: Karen Brailsford "After being cast as Rue in The Hunger Games, rising star Amandla Stenberg is on everyone's radar. With so much attention, the 13-year old says her mom is key." My mom reminds me that all things are possible. I can't say how honored and how grateful I was to be featured with Amandla in this Mother's Day tribute story. A highlight: heading to Venice Beach for the photo shoot.
PEOPLE Hollywood Blackout I was a member of the fastidious team behind this special report from 1996 that garnered lots of attention and headlines (I appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the subject with Charlie Gibson.) We called some 130 sources to discuss the lack of representation in Hollywood. Five years later, little had changed. One could argue the same is true a quarter-century later.
INTERVIEW Malcolm X That's my mug on the contributors' page, featured with Elvis Costello, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper and Donna Tartt. I talked to Spike Lee about his then upcoming film. A silly moment: Spike teased me about my key chain, a statuette I'd bought as a souvenir in Africa. "That's a fertility symbol. You'd better be careful!" he warned. "That stuff works."
PEOPLE Shock Waves Seven years before Alice Sebold's much-heralded debut novel The Lovely Bones became a movie starring Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Stanley Tucci, I sat down with the author at her Long Beach, CA, home to discuss how she came to tell the disturbingly dark tale. Thankfully, it was a bright and sunny day.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW The Wainscott Weasel by Tor Seidler I concluded, "It's just possible that not since a spider named Charlotte saved a pig named Wilbur from the slaughterhouse has there been a more tender tale of interspecies love and devotion." And I loved the illustrations, too.
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Tell us a little about yourself?
My Instagram (@iamkarenbrailsford) bio at the time of this interview pretty much sums me up: Delighting in all things synchronistic, magical and miraculous. I also share my favorite things, inspirations and what makes my soul happy!
HEART & SOUL Sister to Sister From the contributors page, featuring a photo of me with Amandla: Karen Brailsford, a staff correspondent for People magazine, is used to meeting celebrities. So she wasn't prepared to be swept away by gospel-recording artists Mary Mary, with whom she "laughed, hugged, teased and cooked" for our cover story, "Sister to Sister." "Erica and Tina Campbell come from a place of deep spirituality and truth," she remarks. "It's hard not to be captivated by them."
HONEY Nia Rides Again Clearly, Honey magazine was in love with actress Nia Long: the editors lavished her with an 11-page spread, which I was lucky enough to write. I met the Boyz N the Hood star (in one of her very first roles) for dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel Beverly Hills. I remember being impressed by her candor, her adoration for her little boy—and the Mercedes SUV in which she drove off at the end of our gabfest.
PEOPLE Danny's Song To commemorate his October 10 birthday, the parents of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal journalist who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002, launched Daniel Pearl Music Day. I was assigned to interview them at their home in Encino, CA. I must confess: This was a tough one. The Pearls' grief was palpable and they were very inspired to honor their son. Every year on his birthday I think about Daniel and imagine he's somewhere playing his beloved violin.
IN TOUCH Cosmopolitan Style When I ran into actress Golden Brooks at the premiere of The Darkest Minds (she plays the mother of Amandla's character as a little girl), I gushed. I had interviewed the Girlfriends actress years earlier for an interior design story. I was inspired to buy an African bench and a kimono after a visit to her Hollywood Hills home, but I didn't encase mine in a glass box like Golden. During our reunion, I reminded her that she had Coldplay's "Clocks" on full blast and we both laughed.
IN TOUCH California Dreaming Ryan Seacrest was a bit taken aback when I informed him he'd once taken me on a tour of his home. It was 2018 and we were together on the set of Kelly & Ryan. Amandla was there to promote The Hate U Give and during a commercial break both he and Kelly came up to me to chat (Ryan and I tried to figure out which house he was living in then). I can't stress enough how lovely the two morning hosts are. And what they do every morning is nothing short of brilliant. The banter...the camaraderie... What pros!
YOUR ISSUE HERE: WORKING WITH HOLLYWOOD TO DELIVER YOUR MESSAGE TO MILLIONS I spent six months researching, reporting and writing this guide targeting non-profits wanting to promoting their causes in film and television storylines and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
PEOPLE Baby Who Have Babies
This image will forever be etched in my mind: The teen mother I was assigned to cover is sitting cross-legged on her living room floor. Propped up by a colorful Boppy pillow and nursing on each breast is a baby. She had given birth to twin girls.
PEOPLE Babies Having Babies
How's this for perspective? When I visited my teen mom subject five years later, my daughter was a year old and I was in my my mid-thirties. A 16-year old Jamie Lynn Spears would give birth eight years later. And the reality series Teen Mom was a decade away.
NEWSWEEK Black & White: How Integrated is America?
Recently I felt compelled to order a copy of this March 7, 1988 issue of Newsweek, which I helped report. It arrived the day of George Floyd's memorial service in Minneapolis. As I turned the pages, memories began to flood my awareness. The subtitle for the lead story reads "Twenty years after the murder of Martin Luther King, blacks have gained a fragile new middle class and a troubled 'underclass,' while the civil-rights movement itself has fallen into a neglect that hurts everyone". Sidebars included stories on IBM, an affirmative action "success story," and a closing piece written by Jonathan Alter and reported by Karen Springen and yours truly entitled "Why We Can't Wait Any Longer: Arguments heat up about how best to confront the despair of the underclass."
The special report earned a National Headliner Award: Third Place for Outstanding Coverage of a Major News Event for projects on discrimination and poverty.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Last Summer With Maizon At the end of my review, I enthused, "Let's hope Jacqueline Woodson's pen writes steadily on." Thirty-three books later, Woodson won The Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest in children's literature. Check out the gallery to see photo of us together with a Tony Award-winning princess.
PEOPLE Author, Author I spent the day in Berkeley, CA, with the literary world's dynamic duo of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, arriving in time to watch her whip up pancakes for their children. At the end of a very long day, he signed and presented a copy of Summerland, his then latest novel, to Amandla.
REAL BEAUTY Change for Change's Sake Six months after I moved to Los Angeles from my native New York, this New York Times Group publication featured me in a story about adapting to Left Coast style. In the photo, I'm toting a much-cherished purse given to me by Leonard Bridges (I still have it!) I wrote about the handbag designer the previous year in a New York Times Style Makers piece.
PEOPLE In His Father's House Spending time with the legendary gospel singer Andraé Crouch, whose songs ("Soon and Very Soon," among others, I sang as a child on the Sunbeam Choir at Fort Motte Baptist Church, was a pinch-me experience. At the time Crouch was being installed as the head of the church his father had led in Pacoima, CA.
PEOPLE Open Book The author of Bird by Bird and Operating Instructions is a wizard at showing us how to observe, write and live fully. What I gained from my extraordinary afternoon with the writer? A deep appreciation for her engaged, engaging soul—and for Wheat Thins, which she nibbled on throughout our interview at her home in Marin County.
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Rev. Matthew Fox, not to be confused with the actor from Party of Five and Lost , is a very generous and gracious soul. How do I know this? Twenty-three years after I profiled him for People, he agreed to read Sacred Landscapes and write a blurb for it. Talk about divine orchestration.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Hungry for More About The Hunger Games? A Q&A With Amandla Stenberg (AKA Rue) To accompany a story my former Newsweek colleague Karen Springen wrote near the release of the apocalyptic blockbuster film, I took this photo, later published in a communications textbook.
SECRETS TO DATE BY by Jula Jane
I edited this book after a publicist friend put me in touch with author Jula Jane. It was fun. And the cover really popped. Clearly the designer had Barbie in mind. I have nothing more to say, except for this: My favorite chapter title is "Match.con." Get it?
BETTER WAY MOMS So Not Lindsay Lohan: How to Raise A Child Star That's me hovering nearby in this photo of Amandla with director Olivier Megaton on the Chicago set of her very first film, Colombiana. I wrote about the experience for a mommy blog.
NEWSWEEK Black Models Back to Stay No, I haven't gotten the publication wrong here! This Elle magazine cover starring Karen Alexander was featured in a Newsweek story I reported. I must confess I'm horrified to see that although I had lunch with Iman, and if memory serves, Beverly Johnson, too, none of their quotes made it into the final edit. In the end, the experience proved to be prophetic: Six months later, I left Newsweek to work for Elle.
INTERVIEW Daughters of the Dust I still get chills whenever I watch Julie Dash's gorgeous film, which I reviewed when it premiered. A still from Daughters appears in the top half of this composite. So imagine how surreal it felt to be on the Louisiana set of Beyoncé's Lemonade. That's Amandla in the tree, along with Zendaya. I immediately recognized the inspiration for the shot.
NPR Tell Me More With Michele Martin
Should Kids See The Hunger Games?
The violent theme of The Hunger Games incited lots of controversy. As Rue's mom, I had lots to say on the matter.
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Thanks for all of your great questions with the first part of starting Math Rotations! If you missed Part 1 or 2, be sure to read them first by clicking HERE. I'm calling this mini-series Getting It Started Saturday!
On Monday, when my high kids come into do Lesson Work during first rotation, I will give them an extension activity (usually provided by our math program) to complete. This allows me to challenge their higher-level thinking skills and make sure they are doing purposeful work during that time. Sometimes, I will also have them do ScootPad on the iPad or computer, since that is CCSS-aligned and self-differentiating for their level.
I have read each and every one of your comments and questions and thought it would be best to compile them in an easy-to-find FAQ post!
If you're new to Math Rotations, I definitely recommend reading through the other posts in this series as well as the rest found in the Math Rotations tab HERE and at the top of my blog.
How long is your math block?
60 minutes, which is why my rotations and up being about 18 minutes, give or take.... it's quick!
If you had 15+ extra minutes, how would you use them?
How do you fit in literature?
I *adore* math literature, but it gets tight with our current schedule. If I do want to read a book, I will try to share it on Friday. I have also not done Math Rotations that day and done a read aloud with some whole-class activities.
What does my High group do on Mondays during Lesson Work when they first come in?
I went into this quite a bit during Part 2's video, but the short version is that they do enrichment work like math riddles/puzzles, task cards, higher-level thinking problems, all of that good stuff that is so hard to get to in our regular day.
How often do you do Math Rotations?
Do you teach the same lesson three times a day?
Crazy, right?! But, I do :) I find that I teach it differently each time, and that my groups really determine the focus even though the lesson in the "same"-- I find I am reaching them better in this way and that I can target my teaching much better.
What do your kids do for Lesson Work?
Definitely check my Lesson Work post HERE-- I have kids work in their student workbooks (from our district math program) and then if they finish early, they can work on Fact Practice (find more info on that HERE).
I'm nervous to get started... any advice?
I know it sounds overwhelming and I was completely in your shoes last year. I finally felt the confidence to start after finding that I was a better teacher in small groups and my kids learned more in that format, too. Daily 5 gave me the management confidence and reading as much as I could helped me wrap my mind around the pieces and parts much better. I hope my posts have helped you in that way! I also prepped *to death* the Fact Practice and Math Centers so there was no way that kids would run out of purposeful things to do (management nightmare!) and could deepen their math knowledge even after finishing the worksheet for the day. Last, I recommend just jumping in and trusting the process. It does involve some growing pains, but soon, you will feel the payoff and so will your kids!
Thank you for doing all these posts about your math rotations. After finding your blog last year, I tried the math rotations in my classroom and absolutely loved them! I also found my kids liked how the lessons were broken up into small sections.
What a wonderful resource you are! I will recommend your blog to my student teacher from last year. I have been doing math rotations for several years (started because I was teaching a 2/3 combo and had to figure out a way to teach 2 math curriculums in our 90 min math block)! I wouldn't teach math any another way! I think it also keeps kids with their behavior- work for a while and then change!
Thank you sooo much for all of these wonderful posts about your Math Rotations! I started them in the middle of last year in my classroom after reading one of your posts and it worked out pretty well.. My students definitely loved them! However, I am planning to start them from day 1 this year, and I think they will be even better than last year! And with all of your guidance in these posts, I think I have a much better idea of how to make them successful!
I was curious what you do on short weeks, like if you don't have school on a Monday or Friday? Thanks!


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Factors, such as the increasing number of cancers, rising incidence of babies with chromosomal disorders due to the increasing number of late pregnancies, and the increasing demand for non-invasive testing procedures, will foster the market growth during the forecast period.
Infoholic Research LLP, a global market research and consulting organization, has published a study titled "Cell-free DNA Testing Market – Global Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities, Trends, and Forecasts: 2017–2023" (November 2017).
According to Infoholic Research, the cell-free DNA testing market is growing rapidly due to the increasing number of cancers, rising incidence of babies with chromosomal disorders due to the increasing number of late pregnancies, and the increasing demand for non-invasive testing procedures. The expensive test cost with less reimbursement facilities, lack of skilled healthcare professionals, and lack of standardization are some of the factors hampering the market growth. The cell-free DNA testing majorly find its application in gynecology, oncology, transplantation, and others. The demand for these is expected to increase in the future due to the rising prevalence of cancer, changing lifestyle, and unhealthy diet. According to the center of disease control and prevention, around 6,000 babies are born with Down syndrome every year that is nearly 1 in every 700 babies and the disease incidence is increased by about 30% between 1979 and 2003. Further, according to the study of World Health Organization, approximately 14 million new cancer cases were diagnosed and is expected to grow by about 70% over the next 2 decades.
The "Global Cell-free DNA Testing Market" is expected to grow at a CAGR of 26.5% during the forecast period 2017–2023 to touch an aggregate of $8.6 billion by 2023.
The market is analyzed based on three segments, namely test types, applications, and regions. The regions covered in the report are North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Rest of the World (RoW). In North America, the US and Canada are set to be the leading countries. Europe is set to be the second leading region and held more than 27.5% of the market share in 2016. In Asia Pacific, India, and China are the most attractive countries for the players, and holds huge business opportunities. RoW is set to be an emerging market in the next 5–6 years.
The test types covered in the report are cell-free fetal DNA tests (also referred as NIPT), circulating tumor DNA tests, and donor-derived cell-free DNA tests. Cell-free fetal DNA tests is the largest segment, as women are more career-oriented. The trend is seen in western countries to start a family at a late age leading to an increase in the average maternal age. This segment holds nearly 73% share of the total market and is expected to be on a positive year-on-year growth rate. Donor-derived cell-free DNA tests is the fastest growing segment. The rising number of organ donors, the increasing transplantation procedures, and the increasing healthcare awareness have made them the fastest growing segment of the market.


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Being a Cheap Date Is Suddenly a Major Plus
For many people, the big question these days is less about who pays, and more about how much
Nearly half of single Gen Zers and millennials have suggested or taken someone on a less expensive date due to inflation, according to a recent survey.Photo: GETTY
By Rachel Wolfe
Updated Nov. 29, 2022 9:46 am ET
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Coordinator, Loyalty & Engagement
TIFF is a charitable, cultural organization dedicated to presenting the best of international and Canadian cinema and creating transformational experiences for film lovers and creators of all ages and backgrounds in our home – TIFF Bell Lightbox. Our mission: To transform the way people see the world, through film.
TIFF is committed to embracing diversity and treating all individuals with respect, dignity and fairness by removing physical, social and economic barriers to participation.
We encourage you to reflect on the land that you are on, who the traditional keepers of the land are, what the treaty relationship is, or if it's unceded territory. TIFF is located on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, the Wendat, and the Haudenosaunee. We are grateful to work on this land.
We are currently hiring for the position of:
Reporting to the Acting Manager, Loyalty & Engagement, the Coordinator, Loyalty & Engagement is responsible for supporting public-facing relations with TIFF Members; providing exceptional customer service support by telephone, email and in person for current, new and prospective Members; taking an active role in supporting the engagement of the Member base through targeted communications online and in-person initiatives; and supporting the conversion of Members to Donors.
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As first point of contact for incoming Member communications, provide courteous & timely service to all current, new, renewing, and prospective Members via email, telephone, and in-person; and escalate any sensitive Member communications or interactions to the Manager, Loyalty & Engagement as appropriate.
Coordinate the creation, distribution, and reporting of Membership engagement e-communications (e.g. pre-sale notices), as well as updating automated e-communications (e.g. welcome emails).
Working with the Marketing team, coordinate and submit inclusions for TIFF's The Weekly newsletter.
Lead on regular Member and donor thank you check-ins for high-level supporters.
Lead on regular surveys and focus groups to gain Member insights and input.
Act as Loyalty team representative at stewardship events and initiatives (e.g. Member screenings, Member Meet-Ups, etc.) as required.
MEMBER REVENUE GENERATION
Lead on internal Membership and donation sales via email and telephone.
Working with the Senior Coordinator, Loyalty & Engagement, support Membership campaigns as required.
Communication / liaise with the Advancement Operations team as required (e.g. list pulls, account fixes, etc.)
Working with the Loyalty & Engagement Managers, support cross-team giving opportunities.
Produce a weekly Member Feedback Report and analysis to identify areas of opportunity, improvement, and recommendations for program development
Provide input for Membership program reporting on a quarterly and annual basis as required
Stay up-to-date of current Loyalty trends (Membership and Individual Giving)
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CONTRACT DATES OR START DATE:
Experience in fast-paced Customer Service environments
Experience with Membership / Loyalty programmes
Experience with stewardship and fundraising events
Proficiency with mass-email systems such as Mailchimp; as well as familiarity with surveys, report analysis, and making recommendations are preferred.
Proficiency in a fundraising CRM (e.g. Raiser's Edge, Tessitura) and/or a ticketing system (e.g. Archtics, Vendini) is a strong asset
Exceptional customer service and relationship building skills
Ability to manage competing priorities
Excellent critical thinking and attention to detail
Strong written and verbal communication
Commitment to feedback, initiative, professional development, AFP Code of Conduct and Donor Bill of Rights
Adaptable to a flexible work schedule including some evenings and weekends
HOW TO SUBMIT & APPLICATION DEADLINE:
All applications must be submitted online through TIFF's Career Centre.
Please upload your cover letter and resumé as one PDF, before the deadline of December 31, 2021.
CLOSING: We thank everyone who applies for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview are contacted. Candidates must be legally able to work in Canada at this time.TIFF regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas; however, TIFF considers and welcomes individuals on time-limited Visa status for this position. For consideration to those on time-limited Visa status, your Visa must allow you to complete the full contract. Please send any questions via e-mail only to careers@tiff.net. TIFF is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment where employees feel valued and respected, and where every employee has the opportunity to realize their potential. As such, we welcome and encourage applicants who identify as racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons across the spectrum of sexual orientation and gender identities. If you are a person with a disability and require accommodation and/or assistance during the application process, please contact us in advance at careers@tiff.net or 416-599-8433 x2013. We strive to provide reasonable accommodations whenever requested.
Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: Not Disclosed.


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A blind writer recalls giving birth: 'I worried that the nurse wouldn't let me take my baby home'
An excerpt from 'This Kind of Child: The 'Disability' Story,' edited by K Srilata.
Kristen Witucki
Dec 19, 2022 · 08:30 am
Writer Kristen Witucki with her husband James Simmons and son Langston.
Kristen Witucki is a blind author, editor, teacher, and mentor who lives in the north-eastern United States. She is the author of a fiction book for emerging adolescent readers, The Transcriber, a novel, Outside Myself, and several non- fiction articles. She lives with her husband, James Simmons, who is also blind, and her three sighted children: Langston (9), Noor (4), and Karuna (1).
"I didn't know she was coming," the nurse told my sighted friend as she helped me into the soon-to-be-blood-soaked hospital gown. "No one told me about this." Was "this" my blindness or the baby or both? She was right; the nurse hadn't been expecting me and I had not met her before. On my hospital tour, it was nurse Evelyn I had met. She had told me about a competent blind mother she knew and who, she assured me, would help me get a handle on mothering. Unfortunately for me, Langston had chosen to be born on Evelyn's day off.
"We took the tour and talked to several people here," my friend, Suzanne, answered calmly.
"But I didn't know," the nurse said, reminding us that we had not, in fact, talked to every single person in that massive hospital, emphasising the I, as if she alone had the power to usher or withhold my baby from the world. Admissions couldn't find me in the computer, even though I had mailed in all of the paperwork early, and an administrative assistant asked me a few questions, basic pieces of information like my name and birth date, which I could ordinarily have answered with 100 per cent accuracy. But now, thanks to the waves of pain, which seemed to be crashing over each other with no beginning and no end, I found myself unable to utter a word.
The nurse checked me, and I thought, "Please clear me for an epidural so I can talk."
"She's nine and a half centimetres gone," the nurse said, sounding impressed for the first time. "She's ready to have the baby."
Apparently, I was having the type of labour which only happens in made-for-TV movies. Except, in those movies, the blind person is never the woman having the baby.
So, as I struggled against the worry that the nurse wouldn't allow me to take my baby home, my son tried to exit, but he couldn't quite get it right. People connected several heart monitors to us and his heartbeat sounded slow and steady like mine. Although I couldn't spell my name out loud, I was suddenly telling the nurse, "I think his heart rate is down."
"It slows down during labour," the nurse reassured me.
Then a male doctor entered and said, "Kristen, are you listening? The heart rate is down." (Hadn't I just said that?)
"If you can't get the baby out in the next 15 minutes, we will need to do a C-section."
The doctor explained that I would need to alert him when a contraction started and to push through it. I would feel one and manage to grind out an "Okay" before pushing. My husband told me, "You're doing great," and I thought, "How do you know? You can't see any of this!" I pushed and moaned and the doctor pulled with a vacuum and after a couple of tries, my son's head emerged. Then, with the next push, he slid out to someone...not to me. Then he was gone...but just to the other side of the room, my friend explained, as the doctor gave me some medication to survive being patched back together. Eventually, Suzanne said, reminding them, "Will you give her the baby?"
They didn't hesitate, at least perceptibly. They handed me the baby, wrapped in a coarse hospital-issue blanket. I was holding my son. The blanket made him, for them, just like any other baby. Only later would I come to know him as the most beautiful creature, as my most beautiful creature: the protrusions of his shoulder blades beneath the slight ripple of his skin; the bones of his spine, each one as distinct as the beads on a necklace; the soft down of his hair; his piano hands opening and closing like mussel shells, moving foggily at times to block his path to my breast.
I was released from the hospital, but Langston had to return to the NICU due to jaundice. The NICU nurses asked me questions. How would I take the baby's temperature? Could I tell time? Did I have relatives living close by who would help? But these nurses seemed much nicer than that nurse I had met on the day of the delivery, the nurse who would rather I hold my baby inside myself. When I admitted to one NICU nurse that I hadn't totally figured out how to measure medicine, she suggested that the pharmacist could help by measuring it out ahead of time. I learnt later that I could buy droppers of different sizes, but I appreciated her willingness to help.
For three days, as Langston's bilirubin returned to normal and they completed observations, I slept and healed, pumped milk, and delivered it to the hospital. We worried. Would they let him go? My relatives and friends helpfully surrounded us, cocooned us, so that my advocacy efforts were minimal as I recovered. And eventually, they did release Langston, thinking, perhaps, that we were his parents only on paper, that we were not his actual caregivers. Caregivers, after all, were not supposed to be blind.
After a few days, my mom left us, with many cooked meals and everything organised, alone as a family to figure things out on our own. However, whenever we needed to bring the baby to the doctor, she always materialised. As long as she was there, I knew no one would question our legitimacy as parents. She wasn't able to go to our three-month appointment, but my good friend, Nancy, who was planning to visit anyway, assured me she could take us.
On the morning of the appointment, she called me, her voice a frog's croak. She had a cold, she said, and the roads around her were flooded. She probably shouldn't take us. It was too late to reschedule the appointment. I called a cab, buckled Langston into his car seat, placed the backpack on my back, picked up the car seat, unfolded my cane, walked to the apartment door and opened it, walked outside, put the car seat down briefly so I could lock the apartment, picked up the seat, opened the main building door and guided the baby through it and down the steps so he wouldn't fall or be slammed by the door, and shuffled out to the cab. Then I opened the door, shoved the car seat over as far as I could and folded my cane and slid in beside it. When we reached the office, I climbed out of the cab with the seat, unfolded the cane, placed the seat on the ground next to me and called the office to ask if someone could help me get Langston and my stuff upstairs. The receptionist assured me effusively that this was not a problem and came to my aid. I worried that she was too effusive.
I prepared myself for an invisible wall in the cubicle sliding open to reveal an entourage of people with paper, informing me that I was officially not qualified to take care of my son.
A lone doctor walked through the door an eternity later, nonchalantly examined Langston, asked me about tummy time and my plans to start solids and pronounced him healthy. Then she left me alone with my baby. I was free to take him home.
As a new mother, I felt the same rocky emotions as other new mothers: deeply abiding joy and love, fear and worry that I wasn't doing enough or was doing it wrong, social isolation and, sometimes, even boredom with the never-ending cycle of feed, change, sleep, repeat. But the doctor's nonchalant acknowledgement of Langston and me as a viable dyad obliterated, for a moment, that complexity. I simply felt the relief of being considered "normal," free to take Langston home.
'When I Became a Mother,' by Kristen Witucki, excerpted with permission from This Kind of Child: The 'Disability' Story, edited by K Srilata, Westland.


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*Petr Forsberg has decided to stay in Sweden and play with his close friend Markus Naslund. Forsberg has only played 15 NHL games since the 2006-2007 season.
Following the lockout, Forsberg and Naslund each tried to sign with the same team and play together but for both of them to make their $6 million a year salaries, it wasn't feasible. Now they're playing together for free.
Pittsburgh was among the few teams that looked into signing both forwards as a packaged deal but Naslund had no interest in coming back to Pittsburgh.
*Alexander Ovechkin returned to action Tuesday night leading the Washington Capitals to a 4-2 victory over the New York Rangers.
Ovechkin scored his 15th goal of the season and now has 15 goals in 15 games. If Ovechkin (24 pts in 15 GP) stays healthy the rest of the season, he is the best bet for overtaking Anze Kopitar (32 pts in 22 games) for the NHL scoring lead.
If Pittsburgh's power play doesn't start showing some consistency, Sidney Crosby (21 pts in 21 GP) and Evgeni Malkin (17 pts in 14 GP) will have a lot of trouble making a run at the scoring title.
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Deryk Engelland. Both teams have had scouts at 2 of the Penguins last 3 games. Atlanta likes Engelland a lot I'm told, as the Thrashers are looking to add toughness to their blueline.
*Chris Bourque has been heavily scouted of late as it's been expected that he will be placed on waivers when the Penguins get a healthy lineup. Minnesota's been looking at him along with the Rangers.
*Brendan Shanahan has retired after realizing that there was not a market for him. When will Chris Chelios do the same thing? Atlanta, Phoenix, New York Rangers and the Montreal Canadiens have all decided to pass on Chelios.
*The Chicago Blackhawks are believed to be close to signing Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews to extensions. The deal for both players is believed to be worth $5.5 – $6 million per season with the term of the contract around 5 years.
Reportedly the Hawks are also close to signing defenseman Duncan Keith to a 12-14 year contract.
Cap woes are on the horizon for Chicago. The Hawks currently have $42.4 million committed to 12 players for the 2010-2011 season. They will remain very aggressive in trying to trade Brian Campbell ($7.14 cap hit). Getting rid of Campbell's and Huet's ($5.6 million) salary is the Hawks best hope of keeping its core together for the long-term.
Patrick Sharp ($4 million) will also be a trade candidate in the off-season.
*Brooks Orpik's injury has not had any bearing on his chances of making Team USA for the Olympics. He's on the bubble but remains a strong candidate for the 7th spot.


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Yes on Prop. 53 for voter review of big state…
Yes on Prop. 53 for voter review of big state projects: Endorsement
Artist rendering of the high-speed rail train through the Tehachapi Pass. The bullet train is the kind of project that could be affected by Proposition 53. (File photo)
October 13, 2016 at 4:35 p.m.
This editorial board likes the idea of letting voters have a say about huge state projects.
That's why we urge a yes vote on Proposition 53, which requires statewide voter approval before any project to be funded, owned or managed by the state can issue $2 billion or more in revenue bonds. This measure would not affect things like school bonds, which are paid back from future tax receipts. This refers only to revenue bonds, which are paid back from future user fees from those who use the project.
Examples might be a bridge that will be paid off by motorists tolls or, say, giant twin tunnels proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown to let some Sacramento River water bypass the Delta to improve the reliability of delivery to Southern California, which would be paid back from increases in water bills.
That latter project is what brought Prop. 53 to the ballot. As opponents like to point out, one rich Central Valley farmer hates the twin-tunnels plan and spent a lot of money to put this initiative before the voters.
That doesn't, however, mean voter approval of issuing revenue bonds to finance very large state projects is a bad idea.
It could come for pass, for example, that cap-and-trade funding for Gov. Brown's bullet train project continues to dry up, and state officials might decide that issuing revenue bonds would be a good idea, with planned payoff of the bonds from future riders' fares. If Prop. 53 were a law, that revenue bond would have to go to voters — who might reasonably suspect that future fares won't be sufficient and might turn down the idea.
That doesn't mean that no project could get built with revenue bonds. It simply means the case made for the project's importance would have to be good enough that more people would vote for it than against it.
Vote yes on Proposition 53.
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